THE PRAYERBOOK IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND

       Sung to the tune of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend”

        By Jule Styne (words) and Leo Robin (music)

        from Gentelmen Prefer Blondes (1953)  starring Marilyn Monroe

      "Prayer Book" lyrics written and performed
                    by Suzanne Guthrie
 

Christians are glad to die for faith

Delighting in debate and doom

But I perfer a church that Lives

                                 And Gives me wriggle room.

The Ninty-five Theses

Was Quite Continental

  But the Prayerbook is a girl’s best friend

The Council of Dort

  Would be elemental with its weighty tome

  To a sense of home

  Outside of Rome.

I can’t take the strain

 Of so much on my brain

  And we all get senile in the end

Psalm shape or collect shape

These prayers don’t lose their shape

The prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.

 [The Litany! ….  The Eucharist! ]

Protestant thought

Can get complicated

   So the Prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.

Some Catholics get fraught

Popes get agitated

When you don’t obey  - for Anglicans

  That’s not okay! 

But a brainy mistake

Won’t send ME to the stake

 And on doctrine I’m willing to bend,

“Scripture, Reason, Tradition”

You won’t get ME for sedition

The prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.    

               [ Queen Bess! Gimme some of that Via Media!

                  Talk to me Tom Cramner! ]

There may come a time

When church politics get dire

   Then the prayerbook is a girl’s best friend.

There may come a time when

   The Diocese requires

   You to take a stand

   And bravely raise your little hand -

It’ll all be polite -

No need to fist fight

But you’ll want your opinion to blend …

  I’ll know what to say

  When I hear myself pray *

         * (spoken) Lex  orandi, lex credandi

  The prayerbook    The prayerbook

   Cramner’s Little Just DO IT,   I DARE – YA book

  The prayerbook -  is a girl’s best friend!  Amen